poverty

At a time when the nation is flourishing during unprecedented economic prosperity (record highs in the market, record low unemployment in the African-American community, record low unemployment in the latino community, wages up across the U.S.), states run by the Democrats are experiencing...

How inflationary is the federal minimum wage rate?
Although labor contributes a substantial portion, labor is only a portion of aggregate products' costs; (this is true even among service products). The federal minimum wage rate effects Low-wage labor and has extremely little proportional...

H.R. 582, “Raise the wage act” is a good bill, but opponents of the bill will refrain from mentioning the minimum hourly rate will not be $15 until 7th year after the bill's passage.
In the likely case that it's not passed through and added to our federal statutes, I urge U.S. Congressional...

How does the federal minimum wage rate effect all USA wage rates?
If the theoretical indefinite U.S. markets' determined minimum wage rate is $5/per Hr,
If X = $5/per Hr; ($7.25 -X)/per Hr. = is the difference between the federal and market's minimum rates.
Difference between the federal and...

Why poor white Americans are dying of despair
The increase in white deaths is entirely concentrated among people with a high school degree or less, a good proxy for poverty. Meanwhile, mortality rates have continued to decline among whites with any college attendance.
What's behind the...

#TheLargerIssue #Fatherlessness #ChildNeglectMaltreatment #MentalHealth #Solutions
Jazelle Hunt, a Washington correspondent for the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service, recently completed week-long training at the University of Southern California as one of 14 journalists...

#TheLargerIssue #Fatherlessness #ChildNeglectMaltreatment #MentalHealth #Solutions
Hard to believe a few seriously warped individuals were able to convicne others to support and engage in this type of violence and human dysfunction.
"Apocalypse - Stalin Documentary"
Wiki reports: Stalin was...

Republicans, even at the USMB, constantly attack Democrats over poverty.
But look at where the bulk of the poor in the United States live. In Appalachia. The largest depressed area in the United States covering 13 Red States.
Study: Infant mortality up, life expectancy down in Appalachia...

Nikki Haley: 'Ridiculous' for UN to analyze poverty in America
“At the end of the day, however, particularly in a rich country like the United States, the persistence of extreme poverty is a political choice made by those in power,” the report reads. “With political will, it could readily be...

Minimum wage is an issue of character.
The essence of personal and political opposition to the FMW rate.
The federal minimum wage, (FMW) rate is of net social and economic benefit to our nation. It has never been among the major causes of the U.S. dollar’s inflation; on the contrary, it’s...

Not ONE of these American judges publicly denounces our Nation's Culture of African American Child Abuse. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, pediatrician and CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness, talks about the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and...

Veronica Wells, wrote, "I saw the title and rejoiced. Because for years, decades even, Black women have been trying to tell the entire Black community that one of our biggest threats in the world is the very Black men we’ve birthed."
In her writing Ms. Wells mentions the late social activist...

Kenny King asked, “These are the professional athletes who stood together to support Muhammad Ali. Where is Colin Kaeperniks support?”
The American athletes standing with ‘The Champ’ were addressing unjust human oppression which during that period of human/societal evolution was embraced by a...

I am not a U.S. citizen, but merely an immigrant. That doesn't stop me from receiving government handouts, however. You could probably call me a welfare recipient, and that would be accurate. The funds in question that are given to me come out of a yearly $134 billion budget, "larger than the...

most Brits and Americans hear the word "middle class" at least 10 times daily on TV and elsewhere. But do these countries really have any middle class remaining? No.
You are not middle class if you lose your house and car the next day you get laid off your job. You are not middle class...

As history has illustrated - nothing generates poverty like left-wing policy. The "War on Poverty" has been a catastrophic failure which has resulted in an increase in poverty. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results each time. It is time...

Avery Sincerely Inquires, “Am I An American Racist?”
Hello. Are you aware of Americas #T_H_U_G_L_I_F_E National HEALTH CRISIS or its long-term remedy #A_F_R_E_C_A_N?
"America’s Firm Resolve to End Childhood Abuse and Neglect”
America’s Culture of African American Child Abuse, Emotional...

In a certain sense I agree with an earlier thread, what difference does it make. I hadn't selected that subject when I thought about posting this thread, but then thought why not. Actually I feel like Trump is totally unacceptable but I'll leave the reasons out for the moment.
Without getting...

Black sports stars, rappers, politicians, etc, etc, are one percenters, wonder if the left will go after there money...
The Victimhood of Black Millionaires
What do you do when you aren’t a victim anymore?
May 19, 2016
Daniel Greenfield
Fresh from the success of Between the World and Me...

Didn't they also destroy detroit...
How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
A city's unwavering allegiance to the Party that ruined it.
April 21, 2016
John Perazzo
A century ago, Camden, New Jersey was a thriving model of prosperity. Indeed, the city was home to 365 active industries that...

Oh poor dear, she has it sooo bad, lol...
Starving on the Prosciutto-and-Brie Poverty Diet
The plight of pro-Big Government millennials.
February 25, 2016
Michelle Malkin
Heed the cry of an entitled young American hipster: Woe is me, me, me, me, me!
...
Somehow, Jane was able to...

January 13, 2016 - Rand Paul and Tavis Smiley
I'd like to preface my comments by mentioning I am NOT a person who embraces the ignorant, people dividing Black vs White or White vs Black game a significant number of my American neighbors wish to embrace. I'm a person who grew up in the 60s-70s...

Global poverty to fall from 29% in 1999 to less than 10%...
Extreme poverty to fall below 10 percent
Tue, Oct 06, 2015 - Extreme poverty will this year fall to less than 10 percent of the global population for the first time, although there is still “great concern” for millions in Africa, a...

Louis Farrakhan Says Black Community Should Boycott Christmas
"Louis Farrakhan is calling on African Americans to boycott the Christmas season, saying it's been transformed into a crass commercial holiday that benefits "white business.""
With all due respect to Minister Farrakhan, "white...

Baltimore Announces $6.4 Million Settlement in the Death of Freddie Gray
Sadly, Freddie Gray was born and raised in a anti-social Baltimore Street Culture that deprived him of experiencing and enjoying a safe, fairly happy American kid childhood.
Like many childhood victims of our expanding...